I just wanted to mention again that port 135 is an issue with some of the new tools, so just blocking standard NetBIOS 137-139 and 445 won't solve the problem.
There's more information on my broadband security page in the NET SEND section.
Is stupid. Go to the polling station. Mark an X in the circle. Votes are counted while the scrutineers watch. Time-honoured, simple, distributed computing system. Works great. There's no sense in technology for technology's sake. Paper, pen, and people are the appropriate technology for voting in Canada.
This has been confirmed.
Rather than reading the rest of the oh-so-superior Slashdotters who will tell you "that's impossible 135 has nothing to do with it blah blah" go over to DSLreports where they actually analyzed the traffic and confirmed it's coming over UDP 135.
If you don't recognize the caller, don't answer. Let them go to voicemail. That's what I do.
Also: replace your phone with a cellphone only. I think (since you pay for calls you receive), telemarketing to cell phones is illegal, at least in some parts of the US and Canada.
William LeFebvre, who is amongst other things, the main author of "top", works at CNN. He has a talk on how they handled September 11 that he gives. He gave it at LISA 2001. Dave Bianchi has done a summary.
Let's just say, they are well aware of the issues, and a lot of thinking and planning has gone into how they handle the load of major news events.
Ok, it's not clear from your posting exactly what you want.
Do you want NAS? That's Network Attached Storage. Currently almost entirely Ethernet based. You get a box with some disks and software, and it sits on the Ether looking like a fileserver, maybe just a CIFS server for Windows boxes, more likely both CIFS and NFS to support Windows and UNIX.
Do you want a SAN? That's a Storage Area Network. A bunch of disk boxes connected together with a switched Fibre Channel network. Servers connect by Fibre Channel directly into the network.
Do you want a NAShead on a SAN? A NAS device acts as a front-end to the SAN, so you have an Ethernet file-sharing frontend onto a Fibre Channel storage network backend.
The problem with implementing any of these is they're about more than a transport medium. A NAS is more than Ethernet. A SAN is more than Fibre Channel. Those media mostly just pump the data around. It's a ton of software that handles the sharing of files.
So sure, you can string a bunch of disks and CD burners and whatnot together with FireWire. No problem. I do it myself. "FireWire" disks are almost entirely just an enclosure with a normal ATA disk inside and an ATA-to-FireWire bridge. Adds a small cost onto the price of a regular IDE drive, that's it. You can buy the enclosures yourself and do it quite cheaply.
However, the operating systems that you connect to the FireWire are going to have no freaking idea about filesharing. If you try to connect more than one host, it won't know what to do.
What you need is FireWire ***PLUS*** filesharing software.
Unibrain makes something they call FireNAS
http://www.unibrain.com/home/
That's about the closest thing in existence to what you describe.
If you're wanting to use IP-over-1394 (RFC 2734), be aware that Microsoft's stack is the main working one. The Linux stack is in beta and Apple has no plans to implement IP-over-FireWire at all.
You can find more info on IEEE-1394 at
http://www.cs.dal.ca/~akerman/gradproject/projec t- links.html#IEEE1394 Also check out the Linux 1394 project
You should forward all "nigerian scam" emails to wafl@phonebusters.com
This rather unintuitive email address stands for "West African Fraud Letters". PhoneBusters.com is a joint effort between various Canadian policing organizations. And sometimes they catch people, which is nice.
In Canada, the main organization set up to deal with phone / snailmail / email fraud is PhoneBusters.
You can forward email scams to them at the West African Fraud Letter address. The RCMP webmaster said "This is now a general account for all scam letters."
Does anyone have the link to the article (or the text of the article) by Jaron Lanier where he said eventually every entertainment device would have to pass a certificate to every other one before you could hear anything? "Keep your analog speakers," he said, or something like that. I know his website is at http://people.advanced.org/~jaron/ but I can't find the article on it.
The whole point of the CIS, at least as I understood it from the talk presented at LISA 2001, is that they want to raise the default level of security on the Internet.
This happens in two ways: 1) the more users who increase their security to match the CIS standards, the better 2) ideally OS vendors will start shipping systems whose default settings are set to comply with CIS security standards
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There's more information on my broadband security page in the NET SEND section.
And then of course there are the Kiddie GPS solutions.
Is stupid.
Go to the polling station.
Mark an X in the circle.
Votes are counted while the scrutineers watch.
Time-honoured, simple, distributed computing system. Works great.
There's no sense in technology for technology's sake. Paper, pen, and people are the appropriate technology for voting in Canada.
DSLreports Broadband Security Forum
So the actions to take are:
Spam Takes New Form
As opposed to cars filled with harmless, fire-resistant gasoline?
Hydrogen burns upwards.
Gasoline pours out on the ground and surrounds you with an incinerating puddle of fire.
It amazes me that people worry about cars with hydrogen, as if they weren't currently driving cars powered by miniature gasoline explosions.
Requirements: 1 caller ID
If you don't recognize the caller, don't answer.
Let them go to voicemail.
That's what I do.
Also: replace your phone with a cellphone only.
I think (since you pay for calls you receive), telemarketing to cell phones is illegal, at least in some parts of the US and Canada.
Let's just say, they are well aware of the issues, and a lot of thinking and planning has gone into how they handle the load of major news events.
Firewire is also the interface for the new pro digital cameras (10+ megapixels). A FireWire card only costs like 50 bucks. It's no big deal.
Heck you don't have to go that far, just read The Top 10 SANs vs. NAS Decision Factors by the author of the ORA book. Or sign up and read the book online at Safari.
AFAIK there is no built-in support in MacOS for IP-over-1394.
Ok, it's not clear from your posting exactly what you want.
c t- links.html#IEEE1394
Do you want NAS?
That's Network Attached Storage. Currently almost entirely Ethernet based. You get a box with some disks and software, and it sits on the Ether looking like a fileserver, maybe just a CIFS server for Windows boxes, more likely both CIFS and NFS to support Windows and UNIX.
Do you want a SAN?
That's a Storage Area Network.
A bunch of disk boxes connected together with a switched Fibre Channel network. Servers connect by Fibre Channel directly into the network.
Do you want a NAShead on a SAN?
A NAS device acts as a front-end to the SAN, so you have an Ethernet file-sharing frontend onto a Fibre Channel storage network backend.
The problem with implementing any of these is they're about more than a transport medium. A NAS is more than Ethernet. A SAN is more than Fibre Channel. Those media mostly just pump the data around. It's a ton of software that handles the sharing of files.
So sure, you can string a bunch of disks and CD burners and whatnot together with FireWire. No problem. I do it myself. "FireWire" disks are almost entirely just an enclosure with a normal ATA disk inside and an ATA-to-FireWire bridge. Adds a small cost onto the price of a regular IDE drive, that's it. You can buy the enclosures yourself and do it quite cheaply.
However, the operating systems that you connect to the FireWire are going to have no freaking idea about filesharing. If you try to connect more than one host, it won't know what to do.
What you need is FireWire ***PLUS*** filesharing software.
Unibrain makes something they call FireNAS
http://www.unibrain.com/home/
That's about the closest thing in existence to what you describe.
If you're wanting to use IP-over-1394 (RFC 2734), be aware that Microsoft's stack is the main working one. The Linux stack is in beta and Apple has no plans to implement IP-over-FireWire at all.
You can find more info on IEEE-1394 at
http://www.cs.dal.ca/~akerman/gradproject/proje
Also check out the Linux 1394 project
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
You should forward all "nigerian scam" emails to wafl@phonebusters.com
This rather unintuitive email address stands for "West African Fraud Letters". PhoneBusters.com is a joint effort between various Canadian policing organizations. And sometimes they catch people, which is nice.
I used the device and I still have kytheras all over the damn place.
I didn't think it was very good.
I hope it will get better.
Um.
It's on Global
and Fox
in Canada.
I just watched it.
Maybe you live in a different Canada.
Because only genuine shrunken monkey heads come with an Evil Curse (tm).
except apparently we hard-working Canadians have no holidays
The deadline for feedback is November 15, 2002.
You can forward email scams to them at the West African Fraud Letter address. The RCMP webmaster said "This is now a general account for all scam letters."
The Gamesters of Triskelion
Or maybe the Providers will start selling their collars in the US market.
Does anyone have the link to the article (or the text of the article) by Jaron Lanier where he said eventually every entertainment device would have to pass a certificate to every other one before you could hear anything? "Keep your analog speakers," he said, or something like that. I know his website is at http://people.advanced.org/~jaron/ but I can't find the article on it.
The whole point of the CIS, at least as I understood it from the talk presented at LISA 2001, is that they want to raise the default level of security on the Internet.
This happens in two ways:
1) the more users who increase their security to match the CIS standards, the better
2) ideally OS vendors will start shipping systems whose default settings are set to comply with CIS security standards
English dub? Yuck.
Letterboxed with subtitles below, that's the way to go.
It seems some people like to leap (to conclusions) before they look (at the URL).